=greets the two knights with a smile=

My pleasure to meet you. Indeed, I find myself in pleasant company tonight. As for this fortress being a safe haven... alas, it is not as safe as you think. But with the help of God and His justice, I hope to make it so.

=tosses a few gold coins on the table and calls to a passing wench=

A round of your finest wine for these young knights. My treat.

I should perhaps introduce myself. My name is Sorianna, and I have been an abbess of a small but prosperous nunnery for almost fifteen years. Unfortunately, of late I have been kept from my duties at the nunnery by a more important quest, travelling as far as Shangala and back to here.

It seems I have finally reached the end of my travels. All the tracks lead to here. And when I have ridden the world of the dangerous abomination I have been hunting for so long, I can perhaps return to a more peaceful, settled life. But until then, this fortress is far from being a safe haven, and each and every inhabitant is in mortal danger.